{"id":7138,"date":"2025-11-14T02:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:27:16","slug":"my-grandma-served-her-church-for-50-years-until-they-gave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=7138","title":{"rendered":"My Grandma Served Her Church for 50 Years Until They Gave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining on the day we buried my grandmother, Eleanor. Not a cloud in the sky, not a rumble of thunder to mark her passing. Just that strange, steady warmth\u2014like the kind she always carried in her hugs and in the folds of her soft cardigans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"M879796ScriptRootC1467388_0149a\">\n<div id=\"AdskeeperComposite1467388_0149a\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\">he had spent nearly fifty years serving her church. Showed up early, stayed late, never asked for thanks. And when she finally needed something in return\u2014rides to service, a visit, a little prayer\u2014they gave her nothing.<\/div>\n<div>My grandmother had been the backbone of that Southern Baptist church\u2014organizing youth retreats, running Bible studies, baking meals for grieving families,<\/div>\n<div>\\ driving the church van through thunderstorms and across state lines for choir tours. She never waited to be asked. She just did it.<strong>\u00a0Read more below<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun was shining on the day we buried my grandmother, Eleanor. Not a cloud in the sky, not a rumble of thunder to mark her passing. Just that strange, steady warmth\u2014like the kind&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}